Whither
οὗStrong’s G3757ohu
Appears in 25 verses of the New Testament
In short
Ohu is the Greek word usually translated “where”, “which” and “wherever”. It appears in 25 verses of the New Testament.
“When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.”
Meaning
Usually translated “where”, “which” and “wherever”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- where 23
- in which 1
- wherever 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 8
- Luke 5
- Matthew 3
- Romans 3
- John 1
- 1 Corinthians 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
- Matthew 28:16Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
- Luke 4:16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
- Luke 4:17And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
- Luke 10:1After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
- Luke 23:53And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
Greek dictionary
οὗ ohu · whither
oὗ (prop. genitive of ὅς), adv. of place, where, whither; (a) in answer to the question "where?" (= ubi): Mat.2:9 18:20, Luk.4:16-17 23:53, Act.1:13 2:2 7:29 12:12 16:13 20:6, 8 25:10 28:14, Rom.9:26" (LXX), Col.3:1, Heb.3:9" (LXX), Rev.17:15; of condition, Rom.4:15 5:20, 2Co.3:17; (b) in answer to the question "whither?" (= quo): Mat.28:16, Luk.10:1 24:28; before ἐάν, with subjc., 1Co.16:6.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whither” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHITHER, adverb
- To what place, interrogatively. whither goest thou?
- To what place, absolutely.
- To which place, relatively.
- To what point or degree.
All definitions
- Whithersoever.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.